10 INFURIATING Ways Video Games Stopped You Getting 100%

As gaming shifts slowly ever closer to being a purely digital medium, for better or worse, we leave behind things like the humble video game manual.

Many of us have fond memories pouring over a game’s instructions that sometimes featured tips, story details and a better look at the game’s artwork. Occasionally they also left behind traces of what once was but never came to be.

The manual for Gran Turismo 2 mentions drag racing but it’s nowhere to be found on the disc itself, heavily implying that it got pretty close to being finished before it was cut. This is indeed the case and the missing mode is responsible for why anyone who played the North American version of the game couldn’t get that sweet, sweet 100%.

The highest possible completion for Gran Turismo 2 was a teasing 98.2%. So close and yet so far away. Even knowing that it was all said and done, just seeing this awkward number instead of those big, shiny three digits feels ungratifying.

Thankfully, Polyphony Digital became aware of this and managed to fix it for the PAL releases but, in a time before downloading patches and updates, Japanese and American players were forever locked out of that sought-after 100%.